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Amba Azaad
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Old mutuals from Twitter - say hello or I might miss that you're (finally!) here :)
New folks - until I get around to writing a new bio/intro thread, be aware that I block for casteism, racism and transphobia liberally, and that I support Kashmir's struggle for freedom as much as I do Palestine's.
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A Palestinian youth in Gaza turns an armored vehicle abandoned by Israeli occupation forces in the Tal Al-Hawa neighborhood into a mobile phone charging station.

📷 AFP
November 30, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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If you want to help someone from Gaza in a non monetary way Reem is working on her degree in journalism and made a short video on a festival in Gaza and needs likes on it www.instagram.com/reel/DRh35XL...
Reem Osama Ismail on Instagram‎: "بمناسبة عيد الاتحاد الوطني لدولة الإمارات العربية المتحدة وبرعاية كريمة من دولة الإمارات العربيه المتحدة ممثله بعملية الفارس الشهم 3 تم اليوم إتمام قرعة اختيار المش...
Operation Fares Al Shaham 3, a union celebration in Gaza, brings together 48 grooms for a future filled with hope, joy, and positivity, under the patronage of the United Arab Emirates. This initiative...
www.instagram.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Few things as sad as making a considerable effort to meet someone only to realise they are no longer a friend.
November 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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The genocide in Gaza is far from over | Raz Segal
The genocide in Gaza is far from over | Raz Segal
We live not in a post-Holocaust world of ‘Never Again’ but in the same world that led to the Holocaust, a world of ‘Again and Again’
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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"Israel is now escalating on all fronts."

"[L]aunching strikes and military incursions across Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and the West Bank."

"All of this takes place as Israel is nominally party to two ceasefires."
#Israel #Gaza #WestBank #Palestine #Lebanon #Syria #Genocide #Housing #Military
Israel is violating all its ceasefire agreements and escalating on all fronts
Israel is using existing ceasefire agreements to establish new realities on the ground, projecting itself as the regional hegemon by launching attacks on Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and the West Bank.
mondoweiss.net
November 29, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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I'm teaching about Gaza on Monday. I assigned this article. You should read it if you haven't, because the trauma it describes is unbearable and we all need to sit with it.

archive.ph/JlVfm#select...
November 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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India's scheduled shows that BCCI thinks South African cricketers far less worthy of its attention than those from England or Australia. scroll.in/article/1088...

This deference towards White, English-speaking nations sits oddly with a regime that claims to oppose colonialism.

Ramachandra Guha
November 30, 2025 at 8:40 AM
"What is art when it doesn’t communicate what the artist is experiencing, only that they are experiencing it and want you to bear witness? Selfish is one word. Insufferable is another."
#ManySuchCases
November 29, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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The #SriLankan government also declared a state of emergency. The cyclone has since exited the island nation and is moving towards the south Indian coast, the country’s meteorological department said.

Read more: scroll.in/latest/10888...

#TamilNadu #CycloneDitwah
November 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Since 1978, the world has observed the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People every November 29th.
November 29, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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“On 28 November 2025, Tokyo High Court ruled in favour of Japan’s ban on same-sex marriage outlining that the ban does not violate Article 24(1) and (2) and Article 14 (1) of the Constitution.”

Disappointing news from Tokyo but solidarity with LGBT communities fighting for equality and justice.

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Japan: Last high court ruling a damaging step backwards on same-sex marriage
In response to today’s Tokyo High Court decision that endorsed the Japanese government ban on same-sex marriage, Amnesty International’s East Asia Researcher Boram Jang said: “The court’s decision tod...
www.amnesty.org
November 28, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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“As scholarship continues to evolve, queerness must be acknowledged as an essential contributor to Palestinian liberation, complementing other political strategies.”

Queer Palestinians continue to challenge genocidal politics and advocate for freedom.

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Queerness, Genocide, and International Law - A Look at Palestine - ECPS
In the colossal scope of the annihilation of Palestinians since October 7, queerness is not a mere addendum when positioned in the scholarship and legality of
www.populismstudies.org
November 29, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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“I suspect hundreds if not thousands of Gazans have been executed in the same manner. This is a war on occupied people–a war on civilians. There is no army in the West Bank. Israel is not fighting with anybody. They are just conducting attacks on civilian population… praised by Israeli army and...
November 28, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I just spent 5 hours on the phone with a dear friend and now I'm the walking embodied of the skin, cleared, crops, watered meme.
November 29, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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the internet is now a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy of a photocopy and so on
November 28, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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There’s a (verified) horrific video of the Israeli army executing two unarmed men and then desecrating their bodies with a bulldozer making the rounds. I’m not going to share it but I will make reference to it to emphasise that there is no ceasefire in Gaza, the West Bank or Lebanon.
November 27, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
This is the funniest reinvention of Brahminnical vegetarianism that I have seen in a while.
Two weeks ago, Grindr put on a fashion show of wool from "gay" rams rescued from slaughter. The media and the Internet swooned. But this feel-good story is a window into the dark role of forced reproduction in animal agriculture.

By me & @gnrosenberg.bsky.social.

newrepublic.com/article/2036...
The Internet Loves These “Gay Sheep.” The Real Story Is Much Darker.
A much-hyped fashion show with wool from “gay rams” obscures the brutal reality of an industry that exploits sheep sexuality at every turn.
newrepublic.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Germany is offering asylum to donkeys from Gaza. Gaza’s children? Not allowed. | Germany is now taking in animals from Gaza while refusing entry to injured and sick Palestinians. The message is clear: in Germany’s hierarchy of “valuable” life, Palestinians are valued less than animals.
Germany is offering asylum to donkeys from Gaza. Gaza’s children? Not allowed.
Germany is now taking in animals from Gaza while refusing entry to injured and sick Palestinians. The message is clear: in Germany’s hierarchy of “valuable” life, Palestinians are valued less than ani...
mondoweiss.net
November 25, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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I can relate. It's like the west going gaga over Rahman because of Jai Ho and all of us couldn't stop laughing
November 27, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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“People assume that Palestinian journalists are among the hardest-working in the world. They are not wrong; being a Palestinian journalist is a difficult and often painful mission because the stories we tell are about the death of our own people.”

Such courage to work while living through genocide.
Palestine Letter: Ignoring your pain, narrating your pain
Palestinian journalists in Gaza aren’t reporting on something neutral. They’re reporting on their own reality.
mondoweiss.net
November 26, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Rescuers searched in rivers and the rubble of villages for bodies, and when possible survivors, after flash floods and landslides on Indonesia’s Sumatra island left 49 people dead and 67 missing.

www.thehindu.com/news/interna...
Indonesia intensifies search for victims after floods, landslides kill 49 people
Indonesia intensifies rescue efforts after floods and landslides kill 49, with many still missing amid ongoing severe weather.
www.thehindu.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Except for governmental accountability, the judiciary will ask everyone to come up with an unsearchable solution.
A day after GRAP 3 restrictions were withdrawn, the average AQI in the national capital was at the higher end of the ‘very poor’ category on Thursday.

scroll.in/latest/10888...

#AirPollution
November 27, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Thesis: The overkill factor of winterwear gear is inversely proportional to the actual cold experienced in Indian cities.
Sources:
1. Kids dressed in monkeycaps, Chennai, Dec 2024
2. Uncles in polar expedition parkas, Bengaluru, Nov 2025
3. College girls in sleeveless tops, Delhi, Jan 2024
Yes and the old uncles are wearing polar expedition parkas when they gather to chitchat in the street corners.
November 27, 2025 at 11:07 AM